- ARCHIVE / October, 2011
- Upgrading to Lion: tips and tricks
I’ve finally decided to upgrade my mac operating system from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Lion (10.7.2). Not really for the new features such as Mission Control and LaunchPad (which although being pretty cool are not going to change my life) but mostly for the fact that the new OS is well integrated with iCloud. Sharing […]
- Seminar: Tagore digital editions and Bengali textual computing
Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri yesterday gave a very interesting talk on the scope, methods and aims of ‘Bichitra’ (literally, ‘the various’), the ongoing project for an online variorum edition of the complete works of Rabindranath Tagore in English and Bengali. The talk (part of this year’s DDH research seminar) highlighted a number of issues I personally […]
- Django B_project available on gitHub
I’ve put together and shared on gitHub all the files needed to get started with a Django project – essentially this is a clean file structure usable to get going with a Django project nice and easy. The idea is that after downloading this, you just have to change a couple of names (see the […]
- Article: Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music
An article by Michael Edwards on algorithmic composition has been published last month on the Communications of the ACM journal. The article is titled Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music. Although the article is quite introductory (Edwards makes it clear that the article “is more illustrative than all-inclusive, presenting examples of particular techniques and some […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
